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April 13, 2008

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at Kunsthalle Wien
February 10, 2014
The installation „Das Wunder des Lebens (The Miracle of Life)“ at the Kunsthalle Wien by the belgian artitists Jos de Gruyters und Harald Thys is dedicated to the absurdity of everyday life. Feb 2nd to May 4th, 2014.

2013

Salon der Angst at Kunsthalle Wien
September 09, 2013
The exhibition Salon der Angst at Kunsthalle Wien will focus on how culture shapes both individual and collective experiences of fear and fearful events.

2012

Cut-up, Cut-in, Cut-out: The Art of William S. Burroughs at KUNSTHALLEJune 14, 2012
KUNSTHALLE Wien presents William S. Burroughs, icon of the Beat Generation. Musicians like the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Lauri Anderson, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, David Bowie and several punk bands like Sonic Youth where fascinated by his work and excessive lifestyle. Together with Brion Gysin he invented the Cut-up method in poetry, writing ("Naked Lunch"), filmaking, art and sound. Lots of photographies showing WSB or taken by him, his books and articles about him, his famous "shotgun paintings" and drawings, films and sound collages. Jun. 15 to Oct. 21, 2012.

Parallelwelt Zirkus in der KUNSTHALLE wien
May 04, 2012
Clear the ring for the world of acrobats, clowns, and exotic animals! KUNSTHALLE offers an introduction into the universe of the circus - full of surprises and sensations, poetry and excitement, confusion and unease. May 4 - September 2, 2012.

No fashion, please! at Kunsthalle Wien
November 10, 2011
In the show "No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle" the Kunsthalle Wien presents 19 positions of international contemporary photographers, who explore the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. Nov 10, 2011 - Jan 22, 2012.

Vanity Fashion / Photography at Kunsthalle Vienna
October 21, 2011
In the show " Vanity - Fashion / Photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection" at KUNSTHALLE Vienna with more than 200 works from the collection of the german fashion photographer F.C. Gundlach you can explore some iconographic but also lesser known pictures from the late 1920s till today and follow the changing collective imagination of beauty during time. Oct. 21, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012.

"The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer" at Kunsthalle Wien
September 07, 2011
In "The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer" the Kunsthalle Wien not only shows the famous often surreal and dream like films but also seldom seen sculptures, collages and prints by the Czech animation filmmaker Jan Švankmajer.

"Le Surréalisme, c’est moi!" at Kunsthalle Wien
June 21, 2011
"Le Surréalisme, c’est moi!" Kunsthalle Vienna shows works by Salvador Dalí and Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald and Francesco Vezzoli plus a film screening of Dali by Andy Warhol, clips from the dreamsequence created by Dali in Hitchcock's classic "Spellbound" and writings, photos and magazines by or featuring Dali. Until Oct 23, 2011.
"Space – About A Dream” at KUNSTHALLE wien
April 01, 2011
50 years after Juri Gagarin's first space flight the Kunsthalle shows works by 50 artists from 5 decades of the space age. Until Aug 15, 2011.

"Power Up - Female Pop Art" at Kunsthalle Wien
November 04, 2010
theartVIEw at this women only show in the Kunsthalle Vienna. The nine pioneers for Feminism in art proof that Pop Art was not an all male thing: Evelyne Axell, Sister Corita, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol, Niki de Saint Phalle.

Bruce Conner "The 70s" at Kunsthalle Wien
October 08, 2010
theartVIEw dives into Bruce Conners "The 70s". The Kunsthalle Wien shows paintings and films by one of the pioneers of today's visual film language we all know from MTV. Although he was friends with the big names of the Beat Generation and Hollywood like Jack Kerouac and Dennis Hopper and influenced several generations of artists and filmmakers he has remained an insider’s tip.

STREET AND STUDIO at Kunsthalle Wien
June 25, 2010
Opening Night of "STREET AND STUDIO from Basquiat to Séripop" at the Kunsthalle Wien. "I wanted to paint the town red, paint the town black" Jean-Michel Basquiat. A tale of the 80s, when artists expanded their work space from the studios into the whole city. And then some till today... Heavy catalog with collectors edition by the artists, street art walk in Vienna and other events. Until Oct. 10. 2010

Keith Haring 1978-1982 "The early experimental years"
May 27, 2010
The Keith Haring show at the Kunsthalle Wien gives a revealing insight in Haring's widely unknown early years and from what origins he developed the vocabulary for his iconic and trademark like style that made him one of the most popular artist in the world, even more then 20 years after his death in 1990.
"Living and working in Vienna III" — Opening night at the Kunsthalle
March 05, 2010
Every five years the Kunsthalle Vienna shows artists, who are "Living and working in Vienna". This year 32 artists are selected by three international curators. Until Mai 30, 2010.